Debian: New dhcp3 packages fix arbitrary code execution

It was discovered that dhclient does not properly handle overlong subnet mask options, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow and possible arbitrary code execution. Christoph Biedl discovered that the DHCP server may terminate when receiving certain well-formed DHCP requests, provided that the server configuration mixes host definitions using “dhcp-client-identifier” and “hardware ethernet”. Updated packages are available from security.debian.org.